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The employment rate for 2014 has risen to 86.7 - up over 2% points on last year, partly thanks to a smaller number of students reading the law. | 11yrs

Australia could be a 'fabulous place' for international arbitration but its geographical location is a disadvantage and so far it 'just hasn't taken off', according to a leading barrister with experience of Australia, Singapore and London. | 11yrs

Germany's biggest bank has warned that it might not reach its 2020 performance goals if it has to continue to make large payments becuase of regulatory fines and settlements. | 11yrs

Some law firms are likely to decide in a matter of a few years to publish their content on a range of platforms including Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Twitter Video and Flipboard, according to experts. | 11yrs

Chair Peter Kalis has spoken about the departure of 90 partners this year from the 2,000-lawyer firm - saying that they are a natural outcome from the firm's promotion and feedback strategy. | 11yrs

The official investigation is being launched following the discovery that nine military and civilian lawyers at the US base at Guantanamo Bay have or had cancer which could have been caused by conditions at the detention centre. | 11yrs

The international firm has recruited a former UBS Securities managing director in order to carve out a new group in the US, after nine lawyers left from New York and Washington DC for Paul Hastings in July. | 11yrs

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has said that a challenge to the existing ban is 'entirely without merit'. | 11yrs

Lawyers and others involved in the US's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative face numerous difficulties in the tracing, tracking and identifying of the assets as well as issues of political will, according to a specialist at McDermott Will & Emery. | 11yrs

Dickstein Shapiro has lost a ten-lawyer team to Liner in LA - not because the lawyers were unhappy or concerned but because they were offered the chance to concentrate more on client service and the law and less on the needs of hourly billing. | 11yrs

LawPath, an Australian business, has set up a database of 200 legal documents in a relationship with LexisNexis which allows users to download and customise the texts. | 11yrs

Toshiba is including a lawyer in its six-person revitalisation committee whose aim is to prevent further improprieties occurring after recent revelations about the over-statement of profits for six years. | 11yrs

The company has bought MLex, a group that analyses regulatory risk in different jurisdictions around the world. | 11yrs

Law firms are among the largest financial supporters of the Hillary Clinton campaign to become the Democratic presidential candidate - as her accounts reveal that she has raised £46m. | 11yrs

The general counsel of Massachusetts Mutual has explained why the insurer stopped doing business with the now-defunct Bingham. | 11yrs

A professor of Chinese law has warned that it is not just Chinese lawyers who could be at risk of arrest in the People's Republic - but also foreign lawyers working there. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe | 11yrs

Professor Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk are among over 1,000 signatories to a letter asking for a specific ban on the use of artificial intelligence in weapons that would be 'beyond meaningful human control'. | 11yrs

Drone operators are exposed to the possibility of inquiries by the police, privacy bodies, health and safety authorities and aviation authorities, according to law firm RPC. | 11yrs